The Sun. — London, England, 1864-08-17 00:00:00

ONEY MARKET AND COMAITILCIAL INTELLIGENCE, CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The money market remains in a quiet though favourable condition, The inquiry for accommoda tion stimulated yesterday by the settlement at the Stock Exchange has relapsed into an inactive state. The discount establishments have more capital than they can profitably employ, and are therefore disposed to lend it out on easier terms, but the Public, behaving that further concessions will Shortly be granted, are unwilling to negotiate more bids than their present necessities require. Every- Where the ioquiry has fallen off, but as yet the r- . l . llo ta!ions fur short-dated paper are not lower than di and 74 per cent. There was no gold sent into the Bank of Eng• l and yesterday. The amount of duty paid on tea in London for the week ending the 6th instant, represented £ 1 ,068,933, while that for exportation from Lon don during the week ending the 3d inst. was £63 7,ols—making a total of £1,705,918, against 41 ,274,172 in the corresponding period of last year. Oar commercial transactions with Turkey have blade immense progress wittiin the last seven years, both in respect to merchandise imported as well as e xported. The real value of the total imports into the United Kingdom from Turkey in 1857 was £ 2 ,347,232; iu 1858, £2,604.606; in 1859, £ 2 ,728,415; in 1860, £3,180,365 ; in 1861, £ 3 ,636,892 ; in 1862, £4,261,009 ; in 1863, 45,300,535. Two o'CLocK. At Paris this day, according to Mr. Reuter's telegram, the French 3 per Cents. were 66t, 47c. The English Stock market continues to present a dull appearance. The transactions recorded are far from numerous, but prices are nevertheless main tained at steady quotations. Consols for money ir e 391 1, and for the account 89/ The New ` threes and Reduced Annuities are 888 a ; Exchequer Bills, 255. to 153. dis.; and India Bonds, 163. to 158 . dis. In the Foreign Market very few important c hanges have taken place in prices. Turkish Con lolides have improved I to 50i 511, Mexican ex ell remain at 281 29, the New Stock continues at 26 4, Greek are again 231- 24, Spanish Passive 308 1, and the Co3federate Loan is steady at 77 79. In the Railway Share Market a rather heavy t one has prevailed. Great Northern A stock has declined 2, Midland 6, North Eastern, Berwick, 1, a nd South Eastcrn /. The Foreign and Colonial undertakings remain elneedingly dull, without change as regards prices. Bank and Miscellaneous shares remain in mode- I r ate favour at steady prices. Union of London, "Tvever, have improved to 53/, Oriental Bank to 68, 1, Credit Moblier to 11! 12-1, and Hudson Bay en. to 171. L on d o n Engineering and Shipbuilding en. are quoted 1 2 prem, Natal Investment a to I/ Prem., and Maritime Credit 1/ I prem. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. G , OVERNMENT FUNDS. " Per Cent. Consols Do Account, Aug. 8 ~„' Per Cent. Reduced BBl i 1 New 3 per Cent blew 2} per Cent. Jan. 1894 Do 5 per Cent., Jan. 1873 lO5l Annuities, 30 yrs, expire • - th Jan., 1880 — tip° for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — Do (Red 6ea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 — Mach. June. Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 3 & 3} per Cent. Do £SOO Do £lOO and £2OO .. 25 25 /lank England Sts, 5i per Ct. — Do Account IND' ta.i - GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. I ndis , Stock, 10i per Cent., April 1874 213 12 /() Account D 0„ 5 per Cent. July, 1670 __i) Account — Do 4 .. per Cent., Oct. 18 88 — 1)c. CertifiCatea - - ",o Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent . . . uo 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 — D 0 51 per Cent., May, 1879 . Do 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 U„ bond a .ta, two Do under £l,OOO l5 FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Actstrian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. L l ,, Do 1859 ,8- zilian 5 per Cent -7, -- ' 0 4i per Cent., 1852-58-60 11,, -- Do 1863 B6 i: -.1:108 Ayres 6 per Cent ci tlll ian 6 - 0 7 . per Cent. — C ,Lolnbian 6 per Cent Li h °l 4 6 per Cent. s,`") 6 per Cent. 1864 — illador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — b' u o, Provisonal Land Warrant... _.— t,tigh 3 per Cent., 1825 t' k ,,, ° 5 per Cent, 1864 ............. 91i :::: - IP :ciatt 7 Per Cent O r 0 , Second Issue - lolk t re per Cent 1821-5, ea-Coupons 23a k -0 Ac 1 ::) ,, ~.,0 oun %.; upons — If' . Account - ._ — If'. 5 per Cent. — 4 11 0 1839 and 1859 ....... k e ,! ; a ° 6 per Cent. (:11 aremulana Railway) -- 7j o e an 2 per Cent I,Account '-, 0 French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c -Li e illo u it.c. Per Cent. Anglo-French Scrip, Z 23 paid 4 'riall Imperial 5 per Cent e ' t Granada 1)0 2 • .. • 7\ _ per Cent..... ',-;0-Uelerred 110 Land Warrants (Hectares) ° Debentures, 4 per Ct., April 1861 — P e „ Da do Aug., 1866 -- C o l l" , n. 41 per Cent .. J per Cent. (Uribarren) /." 4 t per Cent., 1362 -. pc:JG Account 0 4 eFt e 3 per Cent., 1853 DAccount .. °3 per Cent ,1856, '7, '9, '6U, 62,'2.. ) 4 0 . Account - 1 1 sian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St — Da4i per Cent., 1850 _— D o 3 1860 7 per Cent 1859 b i ° 5 per Cent, 1862 .r.,0 A.nglo-Dutch 4, - ;!? Scrip, £4O paid '"izlian 5 per Cent C o .... Is Account — P „ t 'aiah 3 per Cent -°0 Account 4 -'0 Now D e f erre d 4, 0 Account DO Pe.saive ki 1)0 Account 3Ol a Pattish Cert. of Coup not funded -Do Account S wedish, 4 per Cent Do Scrip, £ 4 30 paid — pm Attrkirsh 6 Par Cent. 1854 Da Account Do 6 pe'.: Cent. 1858 Do A.( , ‘ .ount 72i i I Do £'loo Bonds Do 6 per Cent. 1362 Do Account .. 7 0 4 i 70 Do £lOO Bonds.. 7O Do 1863 N. O O Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. e,aez vela 3 per Cent. Va account DOC per Cent., 1862 '''') Account Seeip £45 p a id .. 9 5 dig " I °ls Der Cent A,, riividends on the above payable in London ltila . n, 5 per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins. NO Account D ot „ 6 ' an 45 per Cent., Ex. 25f. 6 - 6 25 p er Ex. Cent 12 Guil e — It ° 4 per C en t. Certificates lili 5 D o n ) per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs . . F re 4 -aaeunt ~,1 1' 1 1 Rfaltes, 2 per Cent ** pielorian. Dollar Bonds, 41 per Ct.Ex 48. " 410 ntese, 5 per Cent., Lx. 25f ...... C oa THREE O'CLOCK. h e al/ Mon t'a 4 ccouatey ..' le B SAME WITH A DIFFERENCYI.—In England tn c I.ve the House of Lords ar.ct House of Com mui Francs there is the Cork s Legislatif, or Senate ; ti tria the Reichsrath ; in. Greece th e N a ti o nal As -1:11-4b,„„IY ; in Spain and Portugal the Cortes ; in Switzerland ederal Council ; in 'Aorway and Sweden the Storth ; ill Denmark the Upper and Lower Houses of the I,"T 4, aad, th e L andsthing, and the Folksthing ; in Hol i,tr") Bel g i um, Bavaria, Saxony, Hanover, \Vurtemburg, of 14 , 4 via, e Italy, and M o ld o -W a ll ac hia they h ave a Chamber b a r Ptttis ; at Frankfort they have a Diet, so a l so has th tnat ilt; the Fed era l an d th e Confederat e S tates have N ear House of Congress and House of Representative s ; in ea things are in a state of transition, but the Alexi ti ' 2 -sed to have a Congress ;in South and Central Ame -6e4 the different Republics each have their Senate or th, 4 !, te es; the E mperor o f B raz il summons hi s C ortes ; in oatithvich Islands they have a Convention. We hear olf, Easter n P rinces and statesmen holding a Dnrbar or e'°".Moat ( f our Colonies have their Houses of A.s. gerably. It is singular that the Emperor of Russia and the 414 of Turkey should each be able to govern without Y mBi2taaol from their subjects, SEAR, MARKETS—'phis day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOOKS. .1 , Railways. - --A, 86 88 126 k 127! 127 6i 6 7 35 36 16 17 83 91 110 112 47 48 131 135 199 150 131 (33 90 02 1171 1171 C 6 GS 10z (C 3 41 43 117/ 119 VS E 9 601 G 7 1121 1136 133 138/ 108 110 15-1 i 65i 25i '464 106 107 117 f i 66 102 1171 i t 1371 1 P doeltg Busineme 1 Pty ! Price. I done. 234 3} 149 k i i 9 i Bir.. Vol., and Str. Val. Blythe and Tyne. Cost.,Sleat.,and !Bristol and Exeter 'Caledonian Cork and Bandon Cornwall IDo .A vets no dig' Do. p ti 11 op c.p an.has (been paid to I'. Dublin & Belfast June. Dun.,Perth,&Ab. June. tt:dinburgh & Waggery. tilttsg. and S. Westrrn. GrP:..t Eastern, Ord. stb Ditto A stock Ditto Thu t Anglian et GreatNorthof Sootland dreat Northern Do A etoc,t. Do B do Gt. S. and W. of Irelam Great Western Do Str val gua. stoktl ILap.mshire & Yorkehir t.ondon and 131ackwa1! Lon., 13right.,& S. Coast ' Lon., Chat., and Dove' Lon. & 'Noel Western Lou. & Swath IVestern Man., Shef., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Do f shares Metropolitan Midland Do New . Do Binning. & Derby !Aid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. k shares Hid tier t Do Cray Line North British Xclln., Perth, & Dundee Nth, Eastern—Berwie Do, G.N.E. purchas, Do Lecds Do York Du (North London Do New North Staffordshire N. and S. W. Junction, Scottish Central I ,Scot, N. E Aber, stock Do Scot. Mid. stook.. Shrews, and Welohpoo Shropshire Union .... South. Devon ... South Eastern South Wales S. York. and River Dun Staines,Wok.,andWok Stockton t Darlington Do Do New, 1886 Taff Va1e......... Do B Do C Ulster Do Do Vale of Neath I Victoria sta. and Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornwall W. Hartlepool ilftr.&R ' West Midland--Oxford Do Newport Do Hereford 64 G 6 93 94 126 129 .. 4 1* 1, 76 7g loi il 125 130 39 41 57 59 85 87 911 9:a 101 103 7 8 371 38} 101 114, 8 9 165 170 6 7 t 3 t r tot 104 31 36 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. aa{l N ?ye Inttic & St Lawnnte( nom.,llaroda& Cora Inc Gu. 5 per ..... De. New . . Do. E. Ronal° and Laie Huron) Do. Preference ...... Bufralo,BrantAGodrieb 6 p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 1871 Do. do. July 1, 187. 00. do. June 1, 187, Cleutta.AS. E as tn. (Lin! Cage Town I.* Deck Seri; Nastn. Bengal go. 6 p. I 1 ast Indian. gm. 5 p. P.C. . Do. do. G Do. do. II do. Grand rrun'z of Canada Do. Ist Pref. Bonds.. Do. do. deferred...... Do. 2d Pref. Bonds.. Do. do. deferred__ Do. 3d Pref. stock Do. do. deferred...... Do. 4th I'ref. stock... Do. do. deferred...... (3t.lndlaYentn.gua.sp.o Do. New gum. 5 p. c... Do. Ja•.,¢ary, 1852 .. Gt. So' d th.of India(Lim v,taranteed 5 per cent. `V, of Canada Shares :-- Do. New .. Do. 6 p.c. '73 with' t opt. Do. 5i p. o. do. '77-8.... Indian Branch Limited Madras. guar., 5 p. o. Do. 4f p. 0. Extension De, 44 d 0........ Do. Fifth Extension. Melb.Corp. 6 p. o. Buds. 31c1b. & ilobson's Bay. Do. 7 p. c. 3lortg. Bde. NewßruEswick s Candy Class A and B. N. itl.C'daB pc Ist pf bds' Soinde Do. Delhi I 4 4 I Do. E. Do. Punjaub trs' I Do. Do. Do. Indus. St. Flo ) all 100 (100 1100 1 1 all 100 Paid, all 100 Closing Price. 38 —3O - 102 dim p o 56 76 86 75 80 75 60 75 BO 97 oa 94 96 102 104 101 102 194 '2Ol 191 61. 19 2) 71 73 CO 63 66 68 55 57 48 5; 43, 45 27 29 26 28 1016 /026 par ip 99 101 91 9i 11 f; 89 01 82 81 d 99i 100] 93 95 90 92 101/ i 1 i 60 62 3 5 82 84 100! 101! 994 1GO! id par 94 100! 94 PG COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. • ; calk.Gov. p.c.Ja StJuly 1877-51 lOO 90 00 961 71 Do. A p.c. Feb." & Aug 0 100 96 99 Do. 6 p.c.Mar.& Sept 100 98 102 6p. 0. Jan.&July. 10C 84 86 85 4 1 Do. 5 Inseribed stook 100 84 86 Cape G.Hope. 6 p 0,1873 100 104 106 Do.Ap &Oct 1830 100 107 109 Do. 189 100 1(8 110 Do. Jan. & July, 1891 100 106 103 Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6p c 100 110 112 Mauritius 6 per cent lOO )93 105 Natal Gov. 6 per cent 100 IC4 107 N.8.G0v.6 p.o.Ja.&July 100 97 100 Do. 6P. o.Ap. & Oct. 100 N. S.W. Gov. 5 p I,lBot 100 96 /8 ..... Du. sp. e.,18i to 11.'.;7( 100 06 18 Do. d0.,1888 &upwdc 130 96 98 961 - New Zealand 6 p cent 100 11rova Scotia GeV. 6 p. c. sterling, 1575 lOO 99 102 - ;Queenslni.td Gcv. 6p. c lOO 101 104 - IS. Aug 0Cp.c.1678.& up lOO 105 107 VloMov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July 100 - Da lo 6 0.0.An.&0ct.. 100 1081 1091 1081 9 BRITISH MINES. 2 ikiambrian Consol. Gold 1 44 jlifford Amalgamated..— 30 82 Devon G. Con.. (Tay's:4 1 580 600 East Bassett (Illor..n) 3O 68 70 East Clogau Gold Ltd. —d East Caradon . 1.14.61 27/ 281 East Carr. - .circa. E. WI (Tavistk ' 8.13.0 5 51 Gam.aStAubyn(Gwen 586 5 7 (3 rent South Tolgus l7s 2 26 Wheal Vor(llelston 40 27 29 (4renville iTerc.-d's-root 8.12 28 40 tlingston Downs 4.18.0 31 41 Lady Bertha - „)largaret (tiny Lclant 96 8 10 +larke Valley.. 4 1 ‘Tyndy Iron Oro (Lim ; 21 11 g d New Setun l9l 75 85 • North Downs 3 11 11 N.Wli'l Bassetallozan, 3.1.0 21 3 North Wheal Crotty i'ar Consols (st. Blaze) i'rovidence(uny Lelnt. 10.0.7 4') 42 South Caradon(St.Cleer 11 480 500 S. Cant Brea (Illogan) — S.Wheal 1' ran. (Illouau 13.18.9 42/ 47i Stray Park " 30.17.6 28 30 I ramarSilv.& Lead Min. - fin Crart 9 18 19 West Basset (Illozan) ll 9 10 • W C, radon (Liskeard) 9 12 14 West Seton Wheel Basset (Illog,an , 51 92 95 Wheal Buller( Etetirutli 10 20 25 Wheal Kitty (I.s.Lclant; 2.0.6 - ,WhealLucleott - Wheal IllaryAnnt,Llen ) 8 14 16 Wheal l3eton 5B/ 210 215 Wheal Treia.wney (Lis.) 7 19 21 - ‘vti , :‘,ll Union 4 16 2 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Western Orig. 46 per cent ,pf., 97t North Staffordshire, 22 PREFEItENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Great Eastern 46 per cent. pf., Ditto, 5 per cent pf., 7% London and S.-Western 46 per cent., 101% FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Bahia and San Francisco (lira.) gum. 7 per cent, 18 Namur and Liege gua. 141. per annum, ta Ottoman (Smyrna to Aid►n), 1t San Paulo (lim.), gua. 7 per cent., 104 Ditto, (all), 181 South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 211 Western and North-Western of France, 201 FOREIGN MINES. Fortuna (lint), :4 St. John, del Itey (Um.), 364 " BANE IL Agra and M tsterman's (Um.),110 Alliance Ditto, new, 574 Anglo Austrian, 7f 1 Anglo-Italian, lira. 5} Bank of British Columbia, 104 10 Bank of Otago, lim., 3f British and Californian, Bin., 5 i= Consolidated Bank, lim a , 111 English, Scotch, an', Australian Chartored, 202 English and Si - yed i s b . Um. 151 European 4 nk lira , , lmperls' l4 Bank (Urn.). - _AM>. new, 27 6 T ,.anerial Bank of ;Mina, India, - and Japan, 64 Imperial Ottoman, 171 Land Mortgage Bank of India, lira., London Bank of Mexico and S. America, 11w., 61 London Bank of Scotland, lira., It 4 London and County, 724 31 London Joint Stock, 424 London and South-Western, 23 London and 11 estminster, f4I I Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, lira,, 254 • National Provincial of England. -- Ditto, ditto, 284 9 Oriental Bank Corporation, 552 South Eastern, lim., Of Union of L0nd0u,.524 34 DOCKS. London and St. Katharine, 70 MISCELLANEOUS. Anglo-Vexican Mint, 184 City Offices, lim., 3i Commercial Union, Insurance, 81 ' Consolidated Discount, lim., 74 Credit Mobili , r, 112:121 East India Irrigation and Canal, 5 Egyptian Cern. and Trading, Um., 32 Electric T e legraph, 1t44 Joint Stock Discount, litn., si 7 London Financial Association, Urn., 254 Madras Irrigation and Canal, - Ditto (ail), 10f English and Australian Copper, 14 Financial Corporation, 1 Gen. Credit and Finance of London, lim., 7 Home and C , lonial Assurance, lira , 6 Hudson's Bay, 174 International Financial Society, International Land Credit, Milwall Iron Works. 41 Oriental Financial, lim., RioNe Janeiro City ImprOvei4ents, 254 SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVVNING, AUGUST 17, 1864. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. AN AWKWARD MISTAKE—A CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY.—Mary Ann Lazell, a respectable looking female, was charged before Mr Tyrwhitt with being concerned with others in stealing a watch and chain, of the value of £9, the property of Patrick Burke, a tailor, living at Nc. 24, Castle-street, Leicester-square. The prosecutor said that on Monday night he was going through Leicester-square when he was accosted by two women, who asked him to treat them. He did so, not being quite sober at the time, and after leaving the public house, and when near Orange-street, he received a blow from behind which knocked him down, and on getting up againthe found that his watch and chain, of the value of £9, were gone, and the two women as well. Seeing the pri soner last night ; and believing she was one of the women who robbed him, he took hold of her and told her so, and she sail she weu!d go wi:h him to the Vine-street station, but that she had not robbed him. He, however, had now a doubt on his mind, and would not swear she was one of the women, but last night he believed she was. Mr Tyrwhitt—Were you sober last night Prosecutor said he was, but not on Monday night. lie went home directly after ho was robbed and told his wife all about it. In reply to the accused, the prosecutor said it was near twelve o'clock when he was robbed. The accused said she was in bed on Monday night by ten o'clock, and could call a witness to prove it. She had lived in service at No. 5, Waterloo-place, Pall mall, and persons there could state that she was a respectable person. Williams, 129 C, said the accused, on being given into custody, said she was in bed at the time of the robbery. The accused again asserted her innocence, and said she had never seen the prosecutor before he gave her into custody. A respectable female said the accused slept with her on Monday night, and, she was positive, was not out of the house after ten o'clock. 11Ir Tyrwhitt said ho considered it proper for the sake of the accused that the case should be heard out. A. mistake had been. committed, and a most important one, and the accused, who would be discharged, would leave the court without a stain on her character. The accused was then discharged, Metropolitan Railway Company. MEETING (THIS DAY). The half•yearly general meeting of the shareholders in this company was held this afternoon at the London Tavern. The report, which has appeared in The Sun, was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN, in moving its adoption, said it was so full, and entered so completely into the policy of the com pany and its results, that be need not say anything more about it. He had received letters urging that a larger divi dend should be declared, but he thought that which was now declared, under all circumstances, was a fair ono. Mr. PARSON, ex-deputy chairman, in seconding the motion, said that from the amount to be carried over another half per cent, might be declared, but the sum to be carried over would be exceedingly small. The directors in determining the amount of dividend to be declared, had bees guided to a great extent by the fact that the Finsbury .extension would participate in the earnings of the line this I half year, while the Finsbury extension itself would not be productive of any benefit. The object of the directors was to give to the shareholders sucha dividend which theywould be able to maintain next half year when the Finsbury capital would be brought in. He believed that in April next their line would be in working order up to Aldersgate-street, and that by this time next year would be open to Finsbury it self. (Hear, hear.) He could assure the proprietors that the dividend to be declared had been fairly earned during the half-year, and no person who had a wish to invest his money in the line need limn any fear that the dividqnsl had been improperly made up. Considering the difficulties they had had to encounter he thought a dividend at the rate of 51 per cent. which it was, proposed to declare was a very fair one. The directors had no intention of unduly burdening their shareholders with extensions and unconsidered speculations. The CHAIRMAN said he had forgotten to mention the subject of working men's trains. During the last week they had carried 2,768 working men to their business and homes, and that at a profit to the company. This was a great ad vantage to the working men, who, at the time of the marn ing at which these trains ran, could not avail themselves of omnibuses, and would obliged to walk, After some conversation the report was unanimously adopted, and a dividend was declared at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum on the preference stock, and at the rate of 51 per cent. on the ordinary stock, carrying forward to the credit of next half-year a balance ef £2,463 68 10.1. The meetisg was then made special, and resolutions were passed authorising the raising of capital by the crea. tion of new shares. The meeting then separated. Dr. Nanning on the Catastrophe at Santiago. Monday being the "Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary," an altar which has recently been erected in the Catholic church of St. Charles Borromeo, in Upper Ogle-street, Fitzroy-square, was, with groat pomp and solemnity, dedicated to "Our Lady Immaculate," as a reparation for the many blasphemies offered to Jesus and Mary in consequence of the terrible catastrophe which occurred at Santiago towards the close of last year. The ceremony was witnessed by a very numerous and attentive congregation. At the high mass whichfellowed a sermon was preached by the Right Rev. Monsignore Manning, D.D., who, in referring to the special object for which they had assembled, said the terrible accident at Santiago, which had caused such wide-spread misery and affliction, was one of those occurrences that had been per mitted by the Divine will for some inscrutable purpose. The facts were fresh in the memory of all, and it would therefore be unnecessary for him to repeat them. The hu man heart was harrowed by the mere thought of the suffer ings, both bodily and mental, which in a single moment came like a flood upon a whole congregation who were as sembled in the sane nary of God. But the world, ever ready to seize an opportunity of inveighing against the Church, took occasion, more especially in this country, to your out a tide of blasphemy more vehement than the flood of sorrow which had fallen upon Santiago, mad to utter• sen timents of which a cultivated and above all a Christian nation ought to be profoundly ashamed. The best way for them, as Catholics, to reply to such charges was by main taining perfect silence, for the persons who could speak in such a way were incapable of argument and reason. It was vain to argue or remonstrate with those who spoke blasphemy—they could only pray for them. Nothing could offend a man more deeply than an insult directed against his mother, and it was reasonable to believe that when our Divine Lord was spit upon during his lifetime here upon earth he suffered the indignity with a greater calm than he had borne the insults lately poured out upon the memory of his mother. It was their duty, then, to an swer those insults by acts of reparation, and of love, honour, and gratitude to the blessed Virgin. They had chosen the Festival of the Assumption for the inauguration of the altar, because it was on another feast 0 the Holy Virgin—that of the Immaculate Conception—that the catastrophe took place which had given rise to the outpouring of so much impiety, He would take leave of this distasteful subject by urging upon his hearers the duty of silence, reparation, and prayer for those who had been guilty of that impiety. They would pray that the Divine illumination might to given to those who knew not what they did, and that their eyes might be opened, so that they might perceive that in blaspheming the immaculate mother of God they were crucifying again her Divine Son. HEALTH OF LONDON. (From the Registrar-General': Report.) The present return shows a manifest improvement in the health of London in last week, as compared with the two previous weeks. The deaths, which were 1,607 and 1,595 respectively in the two weeks ending the 6th of August, declined to 1,433 in that which ended last Saturday. The deaths of young persons (under 20 years of age) fell from about 980 to 862. The average number of deaths in the 32d week of ten previous years, 1854-63, is, with a correction for increase of population, 1,368, and the number ac tually returned for last week exhibits an excess of 65 over the number estimated for the second week of August. _ _ In respect of fatal diseases a comparison of results in the last two weeks shows a decrease in the deaths by measles from 102 to 72, in those by scarlatina from 58 to 46, in those by diarrh cel from 286 to 228. Besides the 228 from diarrbcei lest week, there were 22 from cholera, 5 of which occurred to adults. Of the deaths from diarrhoea, all except 24 were among infants: Both this complaint and measles Were most prevalent in the east districts; 4 deaths from measles and 18 from diarrbcoa were recorded in the Shoreditch district, 5 from measles and 9 from diarrl 031 in Bethnal-green, 7 from measles and 10 from diarrhoea in 'WhitechaPel, 6 from measles and 2 from diarrhoea in St. George-in-the-East, 4 from measles and 9 from diarrbW in Stepney, 6 from measles and 6 from diaraceA in Mile-end Old Town, 10 from measles and 13 from diarrhoea in Poplar. DiarrLcca was returned in 11 cases in the L am b et h di s trict, in 13 in that of Greenwich, in 10 in Isling. ton, anti in 6 in the south sub-district of West London. A woman, aged 65 years, died on the 9th i ns t., after 11 days' illness, of apoplexy from exposure to t he beat. ' child, aged eleven weeks, died at 2, Albion street, Bey..l'nal-green, from "want of nourishment an d rough usag.' by the father." boys and 948 girls, Last week the bit..." of 1,014 in all 1,96 2 children, were registered in Londo n . I n the years 1854 63 .. the ten corresponding weeks o. t he average number (corrected) was 1,83,.2. mean the At the Royal Observatory , Greenwicu : h e ight of the barometer in t he week was 29.:158 in. The mean daily reading was above 30in. on the three days. The reading fell to 29.62 in. on Tues day, and rose to 30.23 in. on Saturday. The mean temperature of the air in the week was 61.2 deg. which is 0 6 deg. below the average of the same week in 43 years (as determined by Mr Glaisher). The mean daily temperature was below the average on four days. The highest day temperature was 82 . 4 deg. on Monday; the lowest night tempera ture was 42.2 deg. on Friday. The range in the week was therefore 40 . 2 deg. The mean daily range was 25.1 deg. The least daily range wa s 13 . 3 deg.; the greatest 34 deg. The difference be• tween the mean dew-point temperature and air temperature was 12 . 7 dcg. The mean degree of the humidity of the air was 64, complete saturation being reprevnted by 100. On Tuesday the humi dity rose to 92; on Thursday it fell to 54. The wind was iu the south-west on the first three days; afterwards in the north-west, south-east, and south ' west. Half an inch of rain fell on Tuesday. A VALIANT YANKEE.—A man in Rochester advertises that he will assassinate Jeff. Davis if the Go vernment will furnish him with six pairs of pistols and 500 dols. Probably he wants a transportation train also, to convey his firearms.—New York World. TIIE PRINCE OF WALES'S VISIT TO DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, Aug. 13.—The Faedreland of to-day says, 6 ' It is generally reported that the Prince and Princess of Wales will visit our Royal Family in September. The semi official Berlingske Tzdende states that Prince Alfred will visit Iceland, and return to England at the commence ment of next month,—.Reuter's Express, THE WAR IN DENMARK, (From the Correspondent of the Dally Newsl COPENHAGEN, Aug. 11. A royal proclamation has been issued, add resseti to the Danish army, in which his Majesty announces forthcoming peace. "Soldiers," he begins, "the struggle is ended. From the war's bloody scenes you will return to your home work." Then follows mention of the heavy cost entailed by the war, of the still heavier sacrifices to purchase peace; "The fatherland's welfare bids us prefer peace to a cons tinued battling." King Christian tells his army that, though trusting in his readiness again ,to meet the enemy, rat he is greatly constrained because these hold all too large a portion of the land which is thus open to devastation. " Therefore must our struggle end even with an abandonment of terri tory that from the oldest times has belonged to Denmark, and which is knit to the heart of every Dane." The address goes on to say that a small force can come out with honour from a defeat by the armies of two great Powers. His Mejee'y afterwards thanks the soldiers for their brave en deavours, and reminds them that only by remaining united for the future can Denmark's freedom be secure. "Be in peace what you have been in war, , ' he ad3s, " and you will promote our country's prosperity as you have hitherto upheld its renown." It is a difficult task to gild the bitter pill and make defeat seem pleasant or tolerable. An in vader that holds more than half your country, and against whom no effectual effort can be made, has the power of imposing his yoke very palpably, and of, in popular parlance, putting your nose to the grindstone. Sleswigers are sent back by the thousand, discharged from military service, to be welcomed in their native duchy by what a month ago were treasonable songs. Jutlanders go home on furlough in civilian dress, to pass under Prussian authorities and be bullied by their foemen of the late campaign. A little army of returning prisoners will carry throughout Denmark the sense of recent discomfiture, and will, moreover, bring with it vivid impressions of Germany's size and power. In America it has been customary to give the chiefs of a conquered Indian tribe a tour through the States, visiting Washington, New York, and Pittsburg, that they might better judge of the greatness of the pale faces, and take warning not to resist them again. Danes who have travelled to Vienna and Komorn, Minden, and Ehrenbreitstein—l speak of the rank and file—must inevitably return north ward, oppressed with a sense of their enemy's huge ness. The lesson that ten to one is rather long odds, and that les Bros battaillons are better than a good clause, will have sunk deep into every Danish captive. Soldiers remaining with Stein mann, or quartered upon Zealand, to whom the royal proclamation is more particularly addressed, were gloomy, but not despairing. They believed that a battle might be won at Middelfahrt which would retrieve their prestige, and were anxious to see Prince Frederick Charles try his luck in an attack on Fyen. So far there is perfect truth in the official statement that the army was ready to meet the enemy if necessary. Then, as to his Majesty's praise of its courage and endurance, none who saw what those poor fellows went through without com plaining will dispute the justice of such commenda tion. If England be ever outnumbered by an alliance of several great powers, if our territory be invaded, and we experience a struggle for honour and freedom like that which Denmark has main tained, I hope that we may have better equipment and bettor fOrtune than the Danes, but I need not wish my countrymen stouter hearts. King Chris tian suffers along with his people. He is robbed as a monarch; they are too frequently ruined as indi viduals; he can therefore touch unreservedly upon the national disaster, and has done so, as above quoted. It was impossible to put a cheering aspect upon what is occurring. The army knows well enough that things have taken a bad turn, and under existing circumstances a very fair valedictory ad dress has been composed. Alfred Hage, whose position in society and family losses give him deserved weight, and who, as I think I mentioned to you lately, is a member of the Folkething is both legislative bodies, has put some searching questions to the Ministers of War and Marine. They are regarding Alsen's capture on June 29th as a defeat most damaging to Danish reputation, and keenly felt by all classes. What answer the ministers return matters not much, since a new cabinet can easily throw overboard its prefe• cessor's responsibility. But there is significance in any sign of parliamentary vigour and life at this moment, the problem of home government being still unsolved. THE GREAT EASTERN. LIVERPOOL ASSIZES, AUGUST 16. CIVIL SIDE. (Before Mr Baron Pigott.) EAR V. CUNARD AND ANOTHER. In this case the plaintiff was Mr John Rao, and the de. fendants Mr Joseph Cunard and Mr James Archibald Kerr Wilson, and the action was brought to recover compensation from the auctioneers engaged in the sale by auction of the Great Eastern for not having handed her over ro the plain tiff, who claimed to have made the highest bid, and to have complied wil h all the conditions of the sale. . Mr James, Q.C., stated the case fir the plaintiff, from which it appeared that on Feb. 17 last the Great Eastern was put up to auction by Mr Cunard, who performed the office of auctioneer, Mr Wilson assisting him, and it being a sale without reserve as announced, the defendant stated that he was ready to receive any bid that might be made. He waited some time, and at last a bid was made of £20,000. A bid then came from the further end of the room of .£25,000. "Name" was called out, and the gentleman's name was announced as Mr John Rae, who had been for upwards of 40 years a shipowner in Liverpool, and was extremely well known. There was a pause, and some conversation seemed to take place between Mr Cunard, Mr Wilson, and Mr Gill, an attorney. After another pause Mr Wilson proceeded to Mr Rae and said "Are you prepared to pay the deposit ?" Mr Rae replied " Why, one has not always money to this large extent in one's pocket. Knock the vessel down to me and I will provide the money forthwith." Mr Wilson went away, and there was some further parley between the gen tlemen there, when Mr Cunard put up the vessel at the former bid of £20,000. Then there mas a bid of 20,000 guineas, and at last £25,000 was bid again, and after dwel ling for some time it was demanded who was the purchaser, when a Mr Yates was announced to be the bidder, and to him the vessel was knocked down on behalf of the Now Great Eastern Steam Ship Company (Limited), Mr Rae there upon stepped up and said, " I am the bidder of Z 25,000, and I demand to have the ship." But Mr Cunard replied, " I have knocked it down to Mr Yates, or to the new com pany ; it is not yours." These were the main facts of the case for the plaintiff; and evidence having been heard in their support, Mr Brett, for the defence, denied. that there was a bona fide bid for the ship by the plaintiff, and that he was in a condition to have paid either the deposit or purchase money. He made a bid which he knew could not be accepted, and after it was found that the vessel had gone at a low price, other people sought in his name to get possession of the ship. His Lordship, in summing up, put the questions—Did the plaintiff bid as an intending purchaser ; did he intend to stand by his bid did he give it in good faith ; was the authority to sell revoked by Mr Gill, solicitor to the trustees, bet, re the purchase was declared ; was the plaintiff ready to pay he deposit either within the room or in a reasonable time at the .Bank, supposing he had satisfied the auctioneers in the room of his intention and ability to do so. Ther. . there was the que ,, A jou of damages, and they should reply to these questions. The jury retired to con: ider their verdict. and after six hours' consultation returned a verdict for the — damages 40s. The Judge ruled that, upon the j arc's reading of the con ditions, the sale money should have been :laid in the loom. He therefore entered the verdict for the deendants, with leave to the plaintiff to move for a new trial. THAMES. ONJ O'CLOCK CLOSING.—James Mier, a tall and powerful man, was brought before Mr Paget charged with violently assaulting Mr Speck, the landlord of the Three Mariners public-house, Ropemaker's-fields, Limehouse. It appeared that shortly before 1 o'clock this morning the prisoner called at the Three Mariners, and was supplied, but reluctantly, with a half pint of porter, to which another customer added a glass of ale. Mr Speck requested the prisoner to drink his beverage and depart at once, as the law required him to close his house at one o'clock, and he wished to obey the law. The prisoner said he did not care for the law, and swore and raved loudly. He called Mr Speck by the most vile names, and when the land lord attempted to put him out of the house he made a furious attack upon him, tore his shirt off his back, struck him on the eye, and knocked him down. Speck was scri• ously injured, and his trousers were split. Mr. Speck then got rid of the fellow, and closed his house. The landlord and his wife were in their bedroom, about to go to bed, when the prisoner returned, and, to use Mr. Speck's lan guage, "assaulted the house." Mrs. Speck looked out of the window and expostulated with the prisoner, who used the most filthy language towards her. A constable named Hockstep, No. 293 K, arrived and took the prisoner into custody, Mr. Speck added that he wished to observe the law and close precisely at one o'clock, but unless protected by the law ho could not do s:). Mr Paget—You are quite right; I am glad there is such prompt obedience to the law. The evidence of Mr Speck was fully =firmed by Mrs Susannah Bell, a neighbour. The prisoner—l have nothing to say. Mr Paget said there had not been a single case of viola tion of the new law in the district since the passing of the Act of Parliament closing the public houses and refreshment ruoms from Ito 1 o'clock. The assault was a most savage one, and he sentenced the prisoner to one month's imprison ment and hard labour in the House of Correction. WESTMINSTER. DISGRACEFUL STATEMENT UFON OATll.—Charlotte Moody was placed at the bar charged with feloniously assaulting and wounding Margaret Hartwell by striking her on the heed with a jug. Complainant said that she was in the neighbourhood of Peter-street, Westminster, last night, when she saw the prisoner and her brother-in-law quarrelling, and separated them. In an hour or more after this the prisoner came and struck her on the head with a jug, and she became sense less from the effects of the wound. Mr Arnold—What made her do this I' Prosecutrix—l am sure I can't tell at all. Mr. Arnold—Had you not said or done something to provoke her ? Prosecutrix—Nothing ; I never spoke to her, good or bad. Mr Arnold—Then there was no ieason whatever for her doing it ? Prosecutrix—Not the least. Mr Arnold—Was she sober ? Prosecutrix—l can't tell. Police constable Feshlay, 112 B, said that at half past 10 last night he saw a crowd of people in St. Peter-street, and found the prosecutrix attacking the prisoner. The prisoner wanted her to go away, but the prosecutor challenged her to fight. Prisoner refused, and the prosecutrix then went into a public house and remained a few minutes. When she came out she rushed upon the prisoner, seized her by . the hair of the head, and began striking her. Witness did not see prosecutrix receive the blow with the jug, as they were surrounded before witness got up. Witness had pro secutor's wound dressed at the hospital. Mr Arnold said that prosecutris had deceived him by the grossest falsehoods, and he should merely require the pri soner to enter into a £5 recognizance to keep the peace. MARKETS—This Day. i - MARK-LANE. Fresh up to our market to-day the arrivals of English wheat--both old and new—were very moderato, The trade, however, was heavy at the late decline in prices. New red wheat was quoted at 41s to 41s; new white. 41s to 475; and new Talavera, 46s to 62s per cwt. . . The market was moderately supplied with foreign wheat. For all descriptions the trade was dull at the recent fall in the currency. Floating cargoes of grain were in slow request at about previous rates. The supply of barley on sale was but moderate. The trade was quiet for all descriptions at about stationary prices. New English barley, 32s to 36s per qr. Malt moved off slowly at about previous quotations. The supply of oats on sale was large. A fair business was transacted in most descriptions at about previous rates, Beans and peas ruled firm at fully late rates. The flour trade was quiet on firmer terms. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour. English 250 610 60 360 Meta Foreign 3,750 2,390 17,450 3,8-10 bets. BOROUGH nor. The plantations aro stated to be suffering from drought, and the accounts at hand to. day are not so satisfactory as hitherto. Last year's hops are steady in price, but old pro duce is a dull inquiry. WHITECHAPEL. The supply of meat on sale is but moderate. yet the trade is quiet as follows ; Beef, from 28 10d to 4s 4d; mutton, 3s 8d to 4s 8d; lamb, 5. 4d to Gs Od ; veal, tls 8d to 4A3 8d ; mad pork, 3s 4d to 4s 4d per 81bs by the carcase. SIIILTING-THIS DAY, LONDON, Aug. 17.—Wind this day at noon—N.W.; fine. CAncirr, Aug. 16.—Calm—Sailed—Renry Brum and Elizabeth Yeo, for Quebec—lsland Light, for New York. FALIKOUTIT, Aug. IG, —Arrived— Clara, from Bahia, LL, Aug. 18, —Arrived—Ilos, from Quebec, Orr QUENSTOWN, Aug. 16—Arrived—Berwiekshire, from Hong Kong, PORTSMOUII, Aug. 16.--Wind S.B. to S.SX.-- Arrived-1 - I,M.S. Osborne and Wolverine, from westward. Sailed—H.M.S. Urgent, for worth Atnerica--henry Dun can, for Quebec. POOLE, Aug. 16—Arrived—Prinoe Eugene, for New foundland. (ny ILAGNETIC TELEGRA.PII.) GRA.VESEND, Wednesday Morning, Arrived, Aug. 16—Demetrius, from Cronstadt—Aurora, from Dram. Arrived, Aug. 17—Citizen, from Bordeaux—Great Northern, from Gothenburg—Velocity, from Calais—Stad Dordrecht, from Durdt—Holland, from Ostend—Sir It. Peel, from Dunkirk. Sailed, Aug. 16—Jumna, for 13rusbraoch—Hanover, steamer, for Calais, DEAL, Wednesday Morning. Passed, Aug. 16—Britannia, steamer, from London, for Gibraltar. Passed, Aug. 17—City of Pekin, from London, for Glas gow—Julia of Ext , ter, from the north for the west. The Price of Gold. The quotation of gold at Paris is about 24 per mille pm, and the short exchange on London is 25.30 per £1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of 4s 17E. 104 d. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is nearly 3-ICtha per cent. dearer in London than in Paris. By advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 425 per mark and the short exchanv on London is 13.5 i per £1 stub n. 4. standard gold at the hnglish Mint price is, therefore, about 3-10ths per cent, dearer in London than in Hamburg. The course of exchange at New York on London for bills et 60 days' sight is about 28i per cent., and the premium on gold is 157 per cent. At these rates there is a profit on the importation 01 pia fro the , United Stateol GERMANY AND DENMARK (From the 71 . 211 C; Correspondent.) VIENNA, August 13. Although M. von Quaade is still without special instructions, he has received notice that he and Colonel Kauffmann are to continue to represent the Danish Government during the negotiations for peace. In general the prolonged delay in the despatch of the expected instructions is attributed to the intrigues of the Western Powers, however wrongly. Before the preliminaries of peace were signed the French Government repeatedly advised Austria to treat Denmark leeintly, and within the last week the Duke•de Grament has returned to the charge. M. Quaade was so over - burdened with work that he applied to his Government for assistance, and it is to be eurposed that his request hes been complied with, as M. von Bile, who was Secretary to the Danish Legation at the ontbreak of the war, rsturned to this city on Tuesday last. In the Kretez Zeitung it is said that M. von Bismark managed to "con vert" the Austrian Mitaister of State, but the intel ligence must be taken cum grano salis. Persons who enjoy the confidence of M. von Schmerling say that he greatly admires some points in M. von Bis mark's character, and I can readily conceive that such is the case. The Austrian Minister has great strength of will and tenacity of purpose, and it is, therefore, not unlikely that he greatly appreciates those qualities in the Prussian statesman. During the last fortnight M. von Sehmerling, who is about to leave for Ischl, has frequently conferred with Count Itechberg, and I believe that he fully ap l i - proves the policy of his colleagues in regard to Prussia. It is, however, evident that Count Reche berg is beginning to feel that he may get into serious difficulties if he should continue to set the secondary German States at naught. For some time past the relations between this Government and the repre sentatives of Saxony, Hanover, Bavaria, and Wure te:b then I have occasion to remark that the French Government hmenatvise suspected n ect v e ey cool, and every now and d r of instigating those States to make opposition to the so.called "leading" German Powers. The Governmental organs of the Vienna press express disapproval of the occ upat i on of Lauen b urg by Hanoverian troops, yet it appears that the latter have an indisputable right to remain in that Duchy until peace is definitively coneuded with Denmark. On the Ist of October, 1863, the German Diet ordered a corps nf execution, which was to be composed of Hanoverians and Saxons, to occupy Holstein and Lauenhurg, and the decree of the Bond has now been fulfilled to the very letter. In official circles it is maintained that Federal troops have no right to remain in either of the Elbe Duchies, "as they have been ceded by Den mark to Austria and Prussia ' 'but the Austrian Government wilt do well to recollect that prclini aeries of peace are not equivalent to a treaty. The march of Federal troops into Lauenburg so greatly roused the ire of the Prussians that they at onced asked for an explanation of the conduct of the Hanoverian Government. At first the Hanoverian Minister for Foreign Affiirs v; as somewhat irre solute, but ultimately took courage, and replied that the Federal troops had entered Lauenburg in obedience to an order issued by the Federal com missaries for Holstein and Iduenburg. It need hardly be said that the inexcusable conduct of the Prussians in respect to Rendsbarg led to the occur pation of Lauenburg. Up to the 9th instant, there was not a single Federal soldier in the above mentioned Duchy, but now a whole bottalion is stationed in the towns of ItatzThurg and Molln. The Berlin Government still tries to keep from the knowledge of the world its intentions in regard to the Duchies, but the aim of T. von Bismarck is perfectly well known to the Germans. He wishes to obtain Lauenburg as an indemnification for the expenses incurred during the 'ear, and to connect Schleswig-Holstein with Prussia by means of what is here called "a military and diplomatic alliance." It Prince Frederic of Augustenburg is willing to agree to the foregoing terms his claim to the throne of Schleswig-Holstein will be supported by Prussia but if he should be refractory, M, von Bismark will agitate in favour of Dake Peter of Oldenburg. The nobles and clergy in Holstein and Schleswig have expressed a wish that those Duchies may enter into a closer connexion with Prussia; and it may rea sonably be supposel that this is not tt: the taste of the Austrian Government, as Baron ChaZles von Scheel-Plessen, who was long President of i.`2 1 4? Estates of Holstein, has been requested to come at once to this city. Baron von Plessen, a man of great talent, belongs to the Feudal party, and he is said to be opposed to the Duke of Augustenburg, because his Highness has promised to uphold the Holstein Constitution of 1849. Oa the 17th inst. the King of Hrussia and M, Von. Bismark will come to this city, and it is understood that many !natters of importance will be discussed and settled while they are here. King 'William and his Minister will pass four or five days in Vienna, and during their stay there will be a grand rev i ew na the Schmelz, 'a large common near the Imperial Palace at Schronbrunn. As the inhabitants of this city have taken it into their heads that the good understanding between . Count Reehberg and M. von Bisaaark bodes no acquired r ights and privileges persons connected with t h e l\Lnistry o f S ta t e are at good to their newly great pains to have it made known to the public, that the Reichsrath will be c o n voked towards the end of the month of O c t o b er. We are told that the Government will b r i ng in severa l bill s o f ina portanoe during the next cession of the Reishsrath, but I have little faith iq the goodwill of the present Cabinet. D t r Schu se lk a , the talented and popular editor of a Weekl y paper, h a s just b e en brought to trial for publi s hi ng an art i c l e in whi c h it was said that ther e are Jesuits in all confes sions, and that their a i m i s to stultify the people. The charge brought by the prose cutor for the Crown a ga i nst the e di tor o f t h e Reform was, that he, by inaerang in his paper the ariiele in question, had insulted confessions that were recognised by the State. As Dr. Schuselka was sentenced to imprison Mont for one calendar month, he has forfeited bid Po li t i ca l r i g ht s , an d w ill not be able to it in the Lo wer A us t r i a n Di e t, of which assembly he is a disti ng uished member. It rains day after day her e , an d t h e wea th er is se so very unseasonable that veral persohs of my acquaintance have left their hou ses i 4 the ountry and returned to town. The Wife Murder atSheffield. Iteatin g .) LEEDS TOWN BALL. Yesterday Jo ( s ß e e p f h or M e I%yierrsj,utasbtilcee-knife grinder, was placed at the bar charged with the murder of his wife. Nancy ) breath e d h eav il y, an d slight cough. In a w eak voice he pleaded not guilty to the indictment, s M u y ff e e r r s e . d H frome was a evidently very weak Mr Blackburn stated the case. Th e prisoner had been married for some years to Nancy Myers, and they lived together at Sheffield. He was about 4' years of age, and at the time of her death the deceased Was about 44. They had several children, but at the period in question only two of them resided with them. Ott the 10th of June, about 9 o'clock, the deceased went down stair., dressed, with the exception of one boot. Shorly afterwards her husband went down with the boot in his hand, and threw it at her feet. The deceased made use of an expression to the effect that if he did not like it he might put the boot down his throat,and this appeared to be the only angry expression made use of by her. Nothing further was then said, and the prisoner went out. Presently afterwards Mrs. Myers went out, but ultimately returned to her own house, and was seen by a neighbour stooping down by the staircase leading from the house part up to the chamber. The next thing was that the prisoner was seen to go into the house and to stab his wife suddenly and rapidly two or three tiros. The poor woman was on the ground, but she jumped up, and a woman named Hoole, attracted by the cries and the mufti), observed that the deceased was bleeding from the throat and face, and that the prisoner was cutting his (ran throat with a table knife. The deceased was taken by Mrs Hoole to the house of Mrs Marshall, but died in a few minutes. After the examination of a number )f witnesses, Mr Middleton addressed the jury fo- the prisoner. His Lordship summed up the evidence, and the jury con• suited together for about three minutes, and then found the prisoner guilty of murder. His Lordship passed sentence in a nest impressive man ner, and the prisoner was removed, aparently little affected by his awful position. THE HUDDERSFIELD MURDER. Joseph Haig, aged 33, cotton twster, was indicted for the wilful murder of Joseph Pogeon, at liudderefield, on the 7th of Nay last, but was acquitted on the ground of in sauPy, 9 ir 'Business done Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day. Market steady. Sales probably or more. 12,000 bales COLLISION AT SEA.—PLY3IOTJTH' AUGUST 16. The Federal war corvette Sacramento put in here this evening, having run down this afternoon off the Start the Norwegian brig Ceres, from Cadiz, with salt for Elsinore. The brig's crew were sav4d. The Sacramento was not damaged. Accounts have been received frcm Martinique to the 26th ult. Capt. de Lapelin, the new Governor, arrived at Fort de France on the 14th, on board the Acheron, after a passage of 25 days. In taking possession of his Government he addressed a procla mation to the inhabitants, in which he assured them of his desire to increase the prosperity of tht,ir :.bland. No news of other h terebt. SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 O'CLOCK. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE,--This Day, EGHAM RACES--THIS DAY. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGBAPH BARON'S 'STAKES. King of Greece Threadbare .... Czarina 2 Five ran. 3 TOWN PLATE. r:eacription ralderdaPh. •• ... 1 .... .. ... Colleen 3 Eleven ran. THIRD F ITION SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE,—This Day, EGHAM RACES—Trus DAY, RAILWAY STAKES, Change of Luck .................... 1 ''Equine .......................................... 2 Drone ............................................ 3 Four ran. MAGNA. CHART 4 STAKES. Cacula ............................................ 1 Medicis ............................................ 2 Four ran. SURREY AND MIDDLESEX. Rappel ..................... • Bally Edmond ........................... .. 2 SCURRY HANDICAP. Mirage ...................................... 1 Bolero.. Merry Maid Five ran. LATEST BETTING. GREAT EBOR HANDICAP, 7to 2 agst Raglan (taken) 100 to 15 agst Welcome (taken) 10 to 1 agst IligLflyer dam (taken) 12 to 1 agst Caller Oa (taken) ARRIVALS AT OXFORD. Tippler, Balhaul, Guardsman, Harcourt, Lord Ronald, Teneriff , , Manchester, Areas, Trotter, Countersign, Black Lily, Sympathy, Jeanette, Queen Bee filly, Worthless, Lutra, Warrior, Flatterer, Pelios, and ..E.na. MANCHESTER BETTING-THIS DIY, EBOR RA.NDICAP. 6to 1 agst Welcome (taken freely) 6 to 1 agst Highflyer's dam solt (taken freely) SWEDEN, ROLLAND, AND LIBERIA. •Count Wachtmeister and Mr. G. Ralston exchanged lately at the Consulate General of Sweden and Norway, in London, the ratifications of a reciprocal treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation between the Governments of the United Kingdom of Sweden and Norway, and the Republic pf Liberia. baron Bentinck and Mr. G, Ralston exchanged last month at the Netherlands Legation the ratifications of a reciprocal treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation betwcen the Govern ments of the Netherlands and the Republic of Liberia. STATE OF TRADE, MANCHESTER, Aug. 16.—There has been a little more activity in the market for shipping yarns to-day, and we have had a general business doing for all markets except those of India. In some few cases an advance of id. per lb. has been paid on Friday's pricea., This branch of the mar ket was strong at the close, with a tendency to advance. In home-trade yarns we have also had a veryetrong market. Prices era pretty much the same as they were before the late depression. Fine numbers still maintain their position, the only signs of weakness being confined to yarns made from the commoner qualities of Surat cotton. Only a moderate amount of business is repotted, and in the absence of any activity in the cloth market manufacturers are not disposed to anticipate their wants. There is a more cheerful feeling in the cloth market. There has been a pretty general inquiry after goods, and buyers seem to have turned their attention a good deal more than they have for somo weeks past to the actual testing of prices, and though few offers have been made and but little business has resulted manu facturers hold very firmly to their quotations. The only cases in which any weakness has been manifested has been where stocks had begun to accumulate inconveniently. In such instances there have not been transactions at lower prices, so far as we can hear, but there can be little doubt, if purchasers were actually to present themselves, offers at rather lower rates would be accepted. Shirtings and printers of good quality still command rela tively the best prices; while longcloths, T-cloths, and do mestics, not meeting with a demand at all proportioned to the present much-increasing supply, are rather weaker. LEEDS, 16th.—There has been a moderate attendance of buyers and sellers in the cloth-halls this morning, and the tone of the market, though rather quiet, was satisfacto►y. Winter goods, with autumn fabrics, have been purchased to a fair extent by the home houses, but the demand for exportation is rather slack. In good plain blacks and unions there is a fair business doing. The manufacturers are well employed throughout the district. Wool is firmly held at last week's quotations. NOTTINGHAM, 16th.—The attendance at this Exchange hall to-day was about as usual, but there was a very dull demand for lace yams at prices similar to those of last week. The inquiry for hosiery yarns was also inactive, at little or no alteration in prices. Silks are realising very high prices. In brown nets there was very little doing, owing to the ex treme dearness of the raw material. ROCHDALE, 15th.—In all respects the flannel trade keeps brisk and prices rise. The attendance of buyers was not large, to-day, but sufficient for the supply, which keeps small, ewing to the continuance of orders direct to the manufacturers. Both plain and fancy goods sell well, and there is an increase in the demand for the thicker kinds. In Yorkshire good kerseys, plaids, linseys, and scourers are all in fair request at fully late prices. A RAILWAY POLICEMAN CHARGED WITH FELONY. —At the Truro Police-Court on Thursday, before the Mayor (Mr T. Truran), Mr W. T. Chappel, and Mr S Pascoe, Frederick John Julian, a single man, aged 26 years was charged with stealing on the 19th December last, from the Truro station of the Cornwall and West Corn wall railways, a leather cash bag, containing an account book, a cash-sheet, and £ll Gs 4d in cash, the pro perty of the West Cornwall Railway Company. The money had been taken for passengers on the West Cornwall line, and on the morning of Saturda7, the 19. h of December, it was placed in the bag, with the account book and cash-sheet, by Mr Morcom, the then booking clerk. Mr Morcom locked the bag, and put it, as usual, in an open trough inside the ticket compartment of the booking-office, to await transit by the next dawn train. Mr Morcom having occasion to speak to Mr Watkin, the station master, left the office for that purpose, and on his return, the platform policeman, whose duty it was to take the cash bag to the guard of the West Cornwall, asked him for it. Mr Morcom told him it was in the usual place, and they both went to look for it, but it was not in the place referred to. Notwithstanding repeated inquiries, no tidings were obtained of it until Wednesday, the 3d of August, end that under the following circumstances Julian was a policeman on the Cornwall line, h av i ng charge of the points and switches at the Trnro station ; and he lodged with a Mr Giessen. the keeper of a refreshm en t house on Richmond-hill. About six. or .seven weeks ago he committed a blunderein turning the points, the cenee quence of which was that one train was driven against another, and a serisus accident well nigh occurred. For this he was dismissed the company's service, and he went to Exeter, Mr Gleason detaining his box and its contents as security for payment of lodging. J ulian sent two or three letters entreating Glassen to let him have the box, and on one occasion stating that it contained £2O worth of property, and a bank-book, and he promised that on receiv ing the box he would pay the bill for lodgings. Glassen de clined, but sent to Julian informing him that if he would send the key he might have out of the box any article he wanted. On Wednesday, the 3d inst., Julian sent the key by Dail, one of the guards on the South Devon and Corn wall lines, end Duff, on arriving at Truro, gav,t the key to Bate, a porter at the station, desiring him to de liver it to Glasson, and to get the articles wanted for the oat up-train. Bate took the key to Glasson, and asked for t'lle required articles ; but Glasson said be had heard so much abuut the valuable coatelits of the box that he would not open it except in the pres ence of a w i tness . Bate ac cordingly witnessed the opening of the box by Glasson, and in it they found the cashbag and acceantboak which had been stolen from the booking-office in December. '1 he bag was still locked, but the bottom had been cut open, and the money was gone. There *as in the box no bank book--no other book, in fact, than the company's cashbook. On this discovery a warrant was obtained and placed in the hands of Police-sergeant Rugg, of the Truro borough police, who searched the box and took possession of the cashbag and book. 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